Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.